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Dr. Zeinab Farokhi serves as an Assistant Professor (Limited Term) in Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, while concurrently holding an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Concordia University (2022-2024). Her research pioneers feminist examinations of digital extremism, focusing on transnational manifestations of Islamophobia through gendered rhetoric analysis across social media platforms.
Her educational background includes:
- PhD in Women and Gender Studies and Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
Dr. Farokhi's scholarship centers on the intersection of digital media, extremism, and feminist theory, investigating how Hindu nationalist and white supremacist groups weaponize affective strategies like nostalgia and gendered abjectification to spread anti-Muslim rhetoric. Her transnational approach reveals critical connections between diaspora communities and digital hate ecosystems, emphasizing urgent interventions for inclusive online spaces. Methodologically innovative, she combines qualitative discourse analysis with computational techniques to track hate speech evolution across platforms.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2021-2025) demonstrates consistent focus on digital Islamophobia's gendered dimensions, with emerging attention to audio-visual extremism on YouTube. Her work identifies cross-movement alignments between disparate hate groups while developing counter-strategies through community storytelling and media reimagining. Key methodological contributions include new frameworks for analyzing affective rhetoric in hashtags like #RemoveKebab and #FreedomConvoy.
Dr. Farokhi has received significant recognition:
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2024)
While specific advising details remain undocumented, her research trajectory indicates active mentorship in digital humanities and extremism studies. Current projects examine Hindu nationalist-white supremacist alignments on YouTube, building on her dissertation tracking transnational digital strategies of anti-Muslim extremism across Twitter ecosystems.
